This is a guide to help you find relevant information for your topic in Science. You will find print resources (books, magazines, newspapers.) and online resources (websites, databases and documentaries).
What is the problem to be solved?
What is the question?
Identify keywords Example: What happens when acids and bases are mixed? How can volcanic eruptions be simulated with models? (simulation)
What are all possible sources of information?
Before you start searching for information, you need to know what you are looking for. It is helpful making a list of what you know, and what you WANT to know. That will help you come up with some keywords to start your search. A good start is an Online Encyclopedia:
Select World Book Student
Where are the sources located?
Once you have gathered some KEYWORDS search the library Online Catalog
There you can find books, selected websites and magazine articles.
Using the same KEYWORDS, look for magazine articles, images and videos on EBSCO Science Reference Center. Click on the icon below:
Click on Science Reference Center
What information does the source provide?
Now read the information you gathered.
Is the information useful and relevant?
Is the site updated? When was the informatiom posted?
Who is the author?
Have you acknowledged every source of information you used in your work?
Avoiding Plagiarism
What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism is the deliberate use of someone else's ideas without acknowledging the source.
Give credit whenever you:
Use another person's idea, opinion or theory
Use any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings, or any piece of information that are not common knowledge
Use Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words
Paraphrase another person's spoken or written words
Use EasyBib to take notes, cite sources and make a bibliography or list of references. Click on the icon below to login to EasyBib.
Create a new project and name it Heating and Cooling or Science Project 1. Make sure you select MLA 7.
Click on Notebook and start taking your notes. Remember to also note the sources!
This is a guide to help you find relevant information for your topic in Science. You will find print resources (books, magazines, newspapers.) and online resources (websites, databases and documentaries).
What is the problem to be solved?
What is the question?Identify keywords
Example:
What happens when acids and bases are mixed?
How can volcanic eruptions be simulated with models? (simulation)
What are all possible sources of information?
Before you start searching for information, you need to know what you are looking for. It is helpful making a list of what you know, and what you WANT to know. That will help you come up with some keywords to start your search. A good start is an Online Encyclopedia:Where are the sources located?
Once you have gathered some KEYWORDS search the library Online CatalogThere you can find books, selected websites and magazine articles.
Using the same KEYWORDS, look for magazine articles, images and videos on EBSCO Science Reference Center. Click on the icon below:
What information does the source provide?
Now read the information you gathered.Have you acknowledged every source of information you used in your work?
Avoiding Plagiarism
What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism is the deliberate use of someone else's ideas without acknowledging the source.Give credit whenever you:
Use EasyBib to take notes, cite sources and make a bibliography or list of references. Click on the icon below to login to EasyBib.
Create a new project and name it Heating and Cooling or Science Project 1. Make sure you select MLA 7.
Click on Notebook and start taking your notes. Remember to also note the sources!